Kamarul Baharain Basir, the Secretary-General of the Association of National Rubber Producing Countries, said that the rubber supply around the world has increased to 4.7 percent while the demand has increased to 4.8 percent.

The Philippine Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is hosting an event and inviting the major stakeholders from the Philippine rubber industry to talk about the investing and marketing opportunities for natural rubber manufacturers as well as the issues surrounding…

Another company that is seeing increasing demand for HNBR is Zeon Chemicals, which is planning to expand capacity for its Zetpol HNBR by 25% at its American plant to come on stream by 2012. The company had previously expanded its…